There are several courses such as SWENG311, 421, 452, 465, and CMPSC443 are currently closed by the office to solve some conflicts among them. These classes are not full yet and will be open again. Ms. Caitlyn Catalfu, scheduling officer of School of Engineering is working with course instructors and registrar’s office on solving these conflicts. I will send the notice on CSSE news channel (http://sites.psu.edu/psbehrendcsse/, please subscribe to it if you haven’t done so) when I receive further information. Thank you for your patience.

Beaumont Technologies, a company in Erie is looking for an intern on very short notice.

I have attached a general job description but to be more specific we are looking for a CS/SE Junior (prefer) who would be able to work part-time during this school year. The intent is for this to lead into a summer internship and continue into their senior year of college. We are looking for an individual with the following characteristics or skills:

– Familiarity with primarily C++/C# followed by Java/Javascript

– Familiarity with Git version control and SQL database design and maintenance

– Able to work individually and solve issues with minimal technical guidance

– Outgoing individual who has good communication skills

We are hoping to receive recommendations/resumes as soon as possible so that we can contact individuals and see who would be a good fit for the position.

The following courses are offered in Spring 2019 for the game development minor:

GAME 140 – Gaming and Interactive Media (can also count as General Education – GS)

GAME 160N – Introduction to Video Game Culture (can also count as GA, GH and US) – enrollment controlled, priority given to students enrolled in the game development minor, please contact instructor Dr. Ahmed Yousof for manual enrollment

GAME 250 – Technical Game Development (required for the game development minor)

GAME 450 – Advanced Game Programming (to count for the game minor, students must take GAME 450, not the co-listed CMPSC 441. GAME 450 and CMPSC 441 have different lab assignments. Also count as a Supporting and Related Area course for CS majors, and technical elective for SE majors.)

GAME 434 – listed on LionPath as PSYCH 434 – Psychology of Gaming (also count as a Supporting and Related Area course for CS majors. Does not count as an elective for SE majors)

Academic Advising Notes on elective courses in Spring 2019 for CS/SE students (PLEASE WATCH THE PREREQUISITES)

For Computer Science Behrend students, the following courses count as Computing Elective (CMPSC courses can also count Science Elective and SWENG courses also count Supporting and Related Areas. However, each course counts only once. )

School-Approved Electives for Software Engineering

Technical electives allow students to choose areas of interest to explore. Technical electives come in two flavors, primary and secondary. Primary technical electives are those courses offered to CSSE majors which are not required for the SE BD major. Secondary technical electives are offered outside your home department and give you broader latitude. Students must complete at least two primary technical electives, and, at most, one secondary technical elective.

As you are starting to register for classes in Spring 2019 semester, I would like to remind you of the following. They might be crucial to your graduation on time in CS, SE major. I strongly advise you to follow the recommended academic plan(RAP) to take the courses. You can find them by clicking the links:

CMPSC335 Fundamentals of Communications Networks is offered in Spring 2019 instead of Fall 2019. If you are sophomore, junior or senior without CMPEN461 in Computer Science at Behrend, I suggest you to take this course in Spring 2019.

Due to the limitation of the enrollments (by class size or room capacity), some courses such as CMPSC421/443/441/474, SWENG421/431/465, etc which are required by CS /SE majors have been set the control to allow CS and/or SE students to take at this time and will be opened later to other students. Pleas register them as early as you can.

The prerequisite for CMPSC443 is CMPSC473 , CMPEN362 which can be substituted by CMPSC474/CMPEN441 and CMPSC335/CMPEN461 respectively.

If you have obtained internship opportunity in any of Spring, Fall or Summer, please inform Dr. Wen-Li Wang (wxw18@psu.edu), coordinator of the internship programs, to help you register it for credits (up to 3) which count as the supporting area course credits for CS and secondary tech elective course credits for SE.

The above are what I have so far. I will let you know if there are any further common information regarding to the schedule. By the way, this message will also be posted on CSSE news channel:

KCF Technologies is an exciting and rapidly growing technology company focused on putting inventions to work in the industrial world. We have several open internships and job positions that may be of interest to your best students in computer science, electrical engineering, and computer engineering. We are looking for students to help us reshape the Internet of Things (IOT) landscape working on full stack development, cloud and security infrastructure, embedded computing, and low power wireless sensors. If you know of students who are excited by a challenging and fast-paced environment, we would like to know about them.

We work and play hard with outstanding health care, fitness programs, and are recognized as a bicycle friendly workplace — here in the friendly heart of central Pennsylvania. KCF’s team is a diverse group of developers, designers, innovators and dreamers from all walks of life that have one thing in common: a passion for bringing the latest technologies to life to make the things we work and live with Smarter! We look forward to hearing from you about students you would recommend for an internship.

I just made an application for the website manager position. I am interested in having several students (three or so) working on the website. If you know of any students who would be interested, either I can send them the form or you are free to. I would also like to try to stop into some comp sci, website design, or other similar classes to promote this.